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Shoes: that putting them on a bed invited death into the family, that a quarrel would follow if one put on the left shoe first. — Khaled Hosseini

The shadow of sharks is the shadow of death, and they call forth dim ultimate fears. Yet there is something holy in their silence. — Peter Matthiessen

The real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death. — Neil Gaiman

Some of us hover when we weep for the other who was
dying since the day they were born. — Lisa Loeb

I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S. — Bobby Fischer

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get. — Kevin Spacey

I would have picked up the artificial heart and thrown it on the floor and walked out and said he's dead if the press had not been there. — William DeVries

No one knows here, that the Death is actually, Actually to Born. — Samar Sudha

Everyone asks what the meaning of life is, but no one asks about the meaning of death. — Jo Nesbo

I feel the terror of idleness, like a red thirst. Death isn't just an idea. — Mary Oliver

There is no hope for the future, said Death — Terry Pratchett

Losing Grandma, just when I'd found her again. A waterfall of flowers brightened her funeral, but they couldn't disguise the stench of death. — Ellen Hopkins

The world is better without
them.
only the plants and the animals are
true comrades.
I drink to them and with
them. — Charles Bukowski

Do not waste the moment of your life which comes together with death because you will bitterly regret the alienation of your own self. — Sorin Cerin

The bereaved need more than just the space to grieve the loss. They also need the space to grieve the transition. — Lynda Cheldelin Fell

There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death. — Mary Stewart

You're not out for the count until you're dead. — Silvia Hartmann

The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable. — C.S. Lewis

A part of me knew ... from the moment I saw her;
her death would have been one wound too many that day. — Dean Koontz

Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not. — Epicurus

I'll argue to the death against stupid legislation, but some rules exist for a reason. — Alastair Reynolds

Life was best when standing in the shadow of death. — Alter S. Reiss

California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death. — W.C. Fields

A child can die even in the safest place on earth- its mother's womb! — Munia Khan

Fidelity is a matter of perception; nobody is unfaithful to the sea or to mountains or to death: once recognized they fill the heart. — Russell Hoban

His death had been as futile as his life. He died ingloriously, of a stupid disease, failing once more, even at the end, to accomplish anything. — W. Somerset Maugham

Uncommon extension of the fear of death. — Ambrose Bierce

The journey from first breath to death has nothing to do with miracles, how much you pray, coincidences, or divine intervention. Sometimes — Colleen Hoover

It's a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of the planet is not sufficient to break it. — Kalle Lasn

Is there life before death? - that is the question! — Anthony De Mello

After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. You — J.K. Rowling

He came with death held in his paw Which no rat born could face Oh woe to those who break the law Of Sunflash and his mace! — Brian Jacques

It's what we do, we continue on. Yet, what is the point?
There is nothing ahead of us when there is nothing left of us. — D.R. Hedge

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist. — W. Somerset Maugham

Death," she said, as her hand dropped away, " is how you know you were alive in the first place. — Vicki Pettersson

The witch knew who had killed her and she snatched pieces of time, here and there, from the business of dying, to make her revenge. — Kelly Link

We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways. — James Joyce

Every act of love is a dagger in the heart of ISIS. May they bleed to death. — Johnnie Moore

Jump in the urinal and stand on your head. I'm the one that's alive. You're all dead. — Philip K. Dick

How short is human life! the very breath
Which frames my words accelerates my death. — Hannah More

It's normally the kiss of death to be identified as a rising star, or someone to watch. — George Osborne

When we leave this life, we only get to take two things: the love we received and the lessons we learned. — David W. Earle

Poverty is the worst form of death. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

But the thing about bad guys is that they have the biggest bosomed blond, they have great clothes and cars, and get great death scenes. — Eric Roberts

Death is the only grammatically correct full stop. — Brian Patten

Everything was going to kill you, poetry as well, and the last was the most deadly. — Brian Castro

... everything we do is decent when the mind begins to forget - the design of life; and good when we are forgotten - the design of death. — Djuna Barnes

Death is the only real thing from life. — Octavian Paler

If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still. — Samuel Johnson

All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance. — Kahlil Gibran

In a flash Buck knew it. The time had come. It was to the death. — Jack London

The world screams, 'Stay down, it's safer.' My soul screams, 'So is being dead. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Life isn't fair, but death is."--Hades in The Gatekeeper's Saga — Eva Pohler

If you are anxious about death, then you don't have a sense of the oneness of things-you feel that after death, you will be no more. — Sidney Poitier

The death of a young wolfe doth never come too soon. — George Herbert

Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists. — Alison Moyet

Better to be the hireling of a stranger, and serve a man of mean estate whose living is but small, than be the ruler over all these dead and gone. — Homer

For he never thought of doing a kindness, but hounded to death the poor and the needy and the brokenhearted" (Ps. 109:16, — Henry Cloud

Sometimes milestones are not measured by the accomplishments of society, but by those of integrity. — Tamara Rose Blodgett

I think the best shaped box ever on earth is a coffin which can be handmade to escort the forever numb-hands. — Munia Khan

They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought[.] — Virginia Woolf

Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east. — Rumi

In the silence, the bear died. It was a cute death, with funny music. — Orson Scott Card

Death on the battlefield is welcome to a soldier. — Mahatma Gandhi

Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath;/ We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death — Algernon Charles Swinburne

Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse. — Seneca The Younger

The old curator of ceramics lay near the door, looking indignant, as if death was a silly modern fad that he rather disapproved of. — Philip Reeve

No tiredness can destroy hope like death can, as the absolute fatigue of life. — Sorin Cerin

Jesus Christ - who, as it turns out, was born of a virgin, cheated death, and rose bodily into the heavens - can now be eaten in the form of a cracker — Sam Harris

My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree. — Franz Kafka

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead. — Albert Einstein

Death, decay, entropy, and destruction are the true suspensions of God's laws; miracles are the early glimpses of restoration. — Philip Yancey

Truth changes as men change, and when truth becomes stable men will become dead, and the insect and the fire and the flood will become truth. — Charles Bukowski

Death is just the last scene of the last act. — Joyce Carol Oates

God forgive me everything!' she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling ... — Leo Tolstoy

Death is the one friend who never fails any man. — Evangeline Walton

One of the primary goals in life should be to prepare for death. Everything else should be secondary. — Billy Graham

The primary question about life after death is not whether it is a fact, but even if it is, what problems that really solves. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

You can not escape death: the end always reach you. — Rachel Ward

The night kissed the fading day With a whisper: "I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth." — Rabindranath Tagore

There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors. — Frank Herbert

Death exists, not as the opposite but as a part of life. — Haruki Murakami

Life is not the end, and death is just the beginning... — Rebecca McNutt

Yes, babies in the womb are human beings, but so what? — MaryElizabeth Williams

Liberty may make mistakes but tyranny is the death of a nation. — Giacomo Matteotti

As Branford Marsalis said in a beautiful essay he write upon Clarence's death, C was blessed with 'the power of musical intent. — Bruce Springsteen

The circumstances of our lives are pieces of a larger scheme in the puzzle of life, and in His Perfect Wisdom, the pieces fit. — Renae Jones

Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living? — Virginia Woolf

Just like the poles of a magnet, some people are drawn to death and others are repulsed by it, but we all have to deal with it. — James Hetfield

In the graveyard built on a garden. The death of Every flower added a little life to the heart of the corpses buried deep inside. — Akshay Vasu

Taking a child to the toy store is the nearest thing to a death wish parents can have. — Fred G. Gosman

You know, lieutenant, you wear your weapon the way other women wear pearls."
"It's not a fashion accessory. — J.D. Robb

And how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to? — Zhuangzi

The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower. — Sylvia Plath

Your skin upon my skin, in the beating of our hearts, may the living let us in, before the dead tear us apart. — Bruce Springsteen

Reasons never matter, once Death comes cold and bold and takes the living by the hand. You count up your dead, every one.. — Janet Morris

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat. — Henry George Bohn

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death. — Billy Corgan

Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death. — Miyamoto Musashi